SM Prime sets opening of two-level mall in Roxas City

SM PRIME Holdings, Inc. is opening on Friday its newest mall in the country, SM City Roxas, in Capiz province.

The property developer said the mall has 41,000 square meters (sq.m.) of gross floor area and will offer a “new trend of shopping, dining and entertainment experiences” to Roxas City.

“It is our privilege and honor to finally welcome our fellow Capiznon to our newest mall in the Philippines, SM City Roxas. The opening of SM City Roxas offers a place to reconnect with friends and celebrate with families, while enjoying a wide variety of food, activities and services that can be found inside the mall,” SM Prime President Jeffrey C. Lim said in a statement on Wednesday.

SM City Roxas is located along the city’s busy Arnaldo Blvd. in Brgy. Baybay. It has two levels of shopping, dining and entertainment areas, plus nearly a thousand parking slots and a transport hub for customers.

The mall also has an atrium with “a large open-air, skylighted space design incorporating distinctive modern textures and fascinating colors, which will give shoppers a fun shopping and exciting shopping and leisure experience.”

Friday’s opening comes as 81% of the mall’s leasable space was already awarded to local and international shops, including SM brands such as the SM Store, SM Supermarket, Watsons, Surplus, Miniso, SM Appliance, ACE Hardware, Sports Central and BDO.

SM City Roxas has four regular cinema houses, each with more than a hundred seating capacity, including seats for persons with disability, and a private cinema with a 20-person capacity.

“Together with our business partners and tenants, we hope to spur more economic activities and provide job opportunities in areas where we have plans to open new SM malls this year. We look forward to serving these communities with the same brand of excellence and convenience SM is known for,” Mr. Lim said.

At the stock exchange, shares in SM Prime slipped by 15 centavos or 0.39% to close at P37.85 each on Wednesday.